Dan Snow's History Hit
Episodes
Flu pandemics. Then and Now.
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'We are very very vulnerable' says the brilliant science author and journalist Laura Spinney. Her fantastic book 'Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 ...
Confronting a Nazi past
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Niemman and Noemie Lopian work together. Two people from very different backgrounds, they tour the world telling people about their family stori...
Night of the Bayonets
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
75 years ago this spring a fascinating but forgotten battle was fought in the dying days of the Second World War. A group of Georgians rose up against...
Max Eisen: Surviving Auschwitz
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Max Eisen was only 15 when he and his family were taken from their Hungarian home to the infamous Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Second World...
UnRoman Britain
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How far did Roman culture and politics penetrate into Britain during the Roman occupation of Britannia?Miles Russell, archaeologist and writer, argues...
The Anglo-Zulu War
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Saul David - historian, broadcaster and author of several critically-acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction - comes on the show to discuss the mos...
Hunting the Bismarck
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1941, the Royal Navy pursued Nazi Germany's largest battleship, the Bismarck, in the greatest chase story in the history of naval warfare. Bism...
The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz
19 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1940 the Polish resistance decided it needed to send an agent to Auschwitz concentration camp. They were desperate to find out what was going on in...
'Seducing and Killing Nazis'
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the Second World War the Netherlands fell to advancing German forces in just a few hours. The Dutch found themselves under Nazi occupation. Man...
How History Inspires Environmental Activism
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world faces a unique environmental challenge. The scale of response to this looming catastrophe can be overwhelming. But economist and activist An...
The Commando Raid that Changed the Course of WW2
12 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1942 the British launched a small raid on the Channel Island of Sark. A cast of characters who gave their colleague Ian Fleming ideas for a...
Sam Mendes on 1917
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Dan talks to Golden Globe winning film maker Sam Mendes about his new World War One film 1917.Based in part on an account told to Mend...
The Persian War
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 5th century BC the world's first super power, the Persian Empire, went to war against a ragtag collection of cities and statelets on its wester...
Interwar Germany’s Secret Ally: The USSR
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the First World War the German Army was in crisis. Limited in the size and its equipment by the Versailles Treaty which ended the war, it was a ...
Ink: A History of Tattooing
05 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Lodder is the world's leading expert on the history of tattoos. He has found evidence of people using ink or charcoal on their bodies stretching ...
Geordies: A History
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'Northumbrian patriot' Dan Jackson, who has just written a book on the history of Northeast England and its people, comes on the podcast to talk about...
The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Crowley is the author of the new book, Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land.The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and r...